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Calais

Calais · m

the winged son of Boreas and Orithyia

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Where it lives

Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Argonautica 3 · 0.81/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

Călăis — Lewis & Short

Călăis, is (acc to Prcb. Cath 1, 40, m., = *ka/lai+s,

p. 1462 P.; cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, p. 143; voc. Calai, Serv. ad Verg. A. 3, 213),

I the winged son of Boreas and Orithyia, and brother of Zetes, with whom he accompanied the Argonauts, Ov. M. 6, 716; Hyg. Fab. 14; 19; Val. Fl. 4, 465 sq.; Serv. ad Verg. A. 10, 350; Prop. 1, 20, 26.—

II The name of a youth, Hor. C. 3, 9, 14.

In the wild

Calais Propertius, Elegiae 1.20.26
Calais Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.692
Calaisque Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.716
Calais Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 5.546
Calain Statius, Thebais 5.408
Calais Silius Italicus, Punica 8.513

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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